on NBC News<\/a> the following day.<\/p>\nCostello immediately called 911 \u2014 warning them that \u201csomebody in here is in bad shape.\u201d <\/p>\n
When he got out and approached the car, he assumed he would find a dead body behind the wheel, the journalist grimly admitted.<\/p>\n
Instead, he found the shellshocked 17-year-old driver sitting there, alive and somehow still conscious.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought, \u2018nobody could survive this\u2019. And it was a teenager. He was stunned. He wasn\u2019t speaking. He had a gaze in his eyes, he was looking out the front windshield,\u201d Costello recounted.<\/p>\n
The teen responded to Costello\u2019s attempts to grab his attention, but could only croak that \u201ceverything hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the fire was rapidly growing, but Costello didn\u2019t want to risk further injuring the boy by moving him.<\/p>\n
Costello was driving home from work when a driver sped past his car and slammed into a concrete barrier. NBC News<\/p>\n
Costello called 911 and remained at the scene after he and two other bystanders carried the teen out of the fiery wreck. X \/ @mcfrsPIO<\/p>\n
Costello started frantically waving down passersby and miraculously flagged an orthopedic surgeon and a nurse.<\/p>\n
The surgeon secured the boy by his neck and head while Costello handled his torso, and the nurse grasped his legs. They hoisted him out of the smoldering wreckage moments before the car exploded.<\/p>\n
Costello said he is still amazed that the driver made it out alive. X \/ @mcfrsPIO<\/p>\n
Pete Piringer, the chief spokesperson for Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service, confirmed that the teen survived the harrowing ordeal.<\/p>\n
And within the next 12 hours, Costello was back on the air, as if nothing had ever happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the lesson here is watch your kids. I mean, this was a 17-year-old, probably hadn\u2019t been driving long, 100 miles per hour, he should be dead. I can\u2019t believe he\u2019s alive, to be honest with you,\u201d Costello advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A veteran reporter with NBC News risked his own life to save a teenage driver trapped inside a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[254,55007,20511,6970,9,11,10,9494,27689,4730,58],"class_list":["post-234959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-car-crashes","tag-good-samaritan","tag-maryland","tag-nbc-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-rescue","tag-rescues","tag-teens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}